Now it's 3.30 in the afternoon of the 31st of December, 2006. You can imagine the New Year as something moving from the direction of the East to the direction of the West. You know that in just two hours and a half, the New Year will arrive in the Far East. And then seven hours later, it will arrive here in France.

So you can imagine the New Year is traveling. and the New Year in terms of time and traveling in space. That's the way we think of the New Year. But if we practice looking deeply, we see how wrong our thinking is concerning the New Year. We have learned that time and space are intertwined. We cannot take space out of time and time out of space. And to imagine that the new year is time traveling through space is not the right thing to do.

But that is how we arrange things. In Buddhism we call it Conventional designation is a very important word in Buddhism. Conventional designation is not a thing. It is only a conventional designation. Conventional.

We want it to be like that. We agree with each other that it should be like that. Conventional designation. Prajnapti. That is the word in Sanskrit.

If we think in terms of the space-time continuum, then we know that it's not possible to take three dimensions of space out of the dimension of time. And they inter-are. Time and space inter-are.